John Preston
Scandinavian Scandals
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Desperation’s Noticeboard
Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by H.G. Cocks
There Will Always be Blood
Indignation by Philip Roth
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?